How do you relax?

My first love is literature and philosophy; my second love is music.

I usually read books when I want to relax. Okay, not exactly the genre of philosophy, but any book that stimulates my imagination and thoughts. Next to reading comes music; listening to music helps me a lot to calm down and simultaneously gives me a positive feeling of vitality. Also, I listen to mantras and meditate to ease and regenerate myself.

Today, I randomly browsed YouTube and accidentally popped up a song I liked very much. It’s from Schiller, not the playwright and poet but the band Schiller, more precisely, the music artist Christopher van Deylen. The song fulfills the characteristics mentioned above of how music relaxes me. The title of that music is „Ruhe, “ which has different meanings, such as silence, quiet, rest, tranquility, and peace. Its lyrics are very short but very meaningful.

Ruhe
Das höchste Glück auf Erden
kommt sehr oft nur durch Einsamkeit in das Herz.

Silence / Tranquility

The highest joy on Earth

Very often comes only through loneliness into the heart.